I'm a first-year PhD student at The Roux Institute at Northeastern University in Portland, ME. I get to spend my days thinking about how materials behave at their limits and building computational tools to make sense of it all. I am lucky enough to be co-advised by both Dr. Andrew Neils and Dr. Melanie Tory.

I grew up in a suburb of Boston, MA and decided to head south and attend Virginia Tech for my undergrad in Aerospace Engineering, graduating in 2025. On top of earning my degree, I also became a diehard Hokie fan (as difficult as that may be sometimes). Along the way, I spent three semesters at NASA Langley Research Center working on composite materials research, which is where I caught the research bug.

For my PhD, my work lives at the intersection of aerospace materials, advanced manufacturing, and data visualization. Recently, I've gotten into cold spray, a process where metal powder gets blasted at supersonic speeds to build up coatings and structures without ever melting. I'm looking to understand and predict how cold sprayed material properties come together. It's part mechanics, part computation, and a lot of trial and error in the lab. I also care a lot about how we communicate science, which is why data visualization ended up in my research mix.

When I'm not in the lab, you can find me climbing, skiing, hiking, and chasing the next adventure. I moved back to New England not just for the research, but also because Maine is an incredible backyard. Check out my Adventures pages if you want to see what I'm up to!